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>> The Morning Commute in Sydney was paralyzed at its peak on Wednesday as police struggled to bring a man who climbed the city's Harbour Bridge back down to Earth. Police eventually arrested the man after an ordeal lasting around five hours. The incident caused commute a chaos in the heart of Australia's largest city.

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>> I got checked off the back before North Sydney. And I decided I'll just walk an hour late.>> Well, I set off at seven usually get in at eight so two hours behind.>> Local media reported the man climbed the bridge around 4:30 AM Sydney time making his way to a precarious position right above the morning traffic.

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Government officials said they understood it was a bad day for Sydney's commuters but told local TV that short of wrapping the bridge in barbed wire that was later they could do to keep climbers off the landmark.